Take a Sneak Peek at The Tony Awards Rehearsals

The Tony Awards, which will air this Sunday, June 8 at 8 p.m. on CBS, will bring together all the shows on Broadway into one night of over-the-top spectacle. The telecast serves as a giant national commercial for the Great White Way, encouraging its roughly seven million viewers across the country to buy tickets to shows they may know nothing about before the Tonys. Producers Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner spend the month before the awards figuring out the lineup of the musical numbers. The only dress rehearsal is Sunday morning, a few short hours before the live show. Here, The Wall Street Journal gets a glimpse of the evening through an early rehearsal.

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